Automobile-tire.



H. E. RBCHNEIL.

AUTOMOBILE TIRE. APPLIOATION FILED NOV.19, 1910.

Patented Apr. 25, 1911.

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To all whom it may concern:

:HENRY E. Brennan, or EAST TOLEDO, OHIO.

AUTOMOBILE-TIRE.

Be itknown that I, IIENRY E. RECHNER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at East Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new.

and useful Improvements in Automobile- Tires, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the acof the protecting clips.

view in cross section of the tire of an autocompanying drawing.

llhis invention relates t'o automobile tires, and'has special reference to devices for protecting such tires.

The invention-has for its object to provide an improved durable and eflective device of this kind which may be readily applied to and entirely or partly removed from a tire, and which will be of alight construction and will maintain .the flexibility of the tire.

To this end the invention consists of an automobile tire and a protective device applied thereto as'hereinafter set forth and claimed. f

Referring to the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a view of an automobile wheel wlth the invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view in perspective of one Fig. 3 is a detail mobile wheel and the protecting device for the tire. Fig, 4 is a detail view in perspective of a portion of a metal band for-secur-, ing the protecting device to a tire. Fig. 5 is a detail view in perspective of one of the elastic metallic'clips provided with means for holding the wheel from slipping. Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the device provided with an outer covering fitting over the steel protectors. I

1- indicates the flanges 6 of the tire 7 are clenched to the,

band4 and the fe1ly'3.

In order to protect the the a number ofv I curved elastic metallic clips '8 are provided,

each of which is formed with the curved 50 portion 9 adapted to be. sprung-over and clench the tire,

lips or flanges 10 which fitinto the annular grooves in the tire in which the flanges 5' are seated. The clips 8 are further provided with the curved portions 11 which fit over the curved edges of the band 4, and wlth the S1- ecificationof Letters Patent.

the hub of an automobile wheel, 2 the spokes and 3 thefelly. Secured.

and with the internal lateral Patented Apr. 1911.

4 Application filed November 19, 1910. Serial No. 593,215.

"curved extensions 12 which fitagainst the felly 3 and 'with the outwardly curved flanges 13 which project laterally from. the felly. The tire 7 is coveredwith the curved fmetallio clips 8 which are sprung over' the tire and arranged so as to abut edge to edge against each other. Each of the elastic metallic curved clips is held to the tire by. the

flanges 10 and the curved portions 11 clamped against the curved edges of the band 4. To holdthe clips 8 securely in place annular clamping metallic strips 14 are provided which may be formed in one piece or in sections. Each'of the annular clamping strips 14 is formed with a curved portion 15 which fits over a side of the clips 8, and with the curved portion 16 which "fits over a crrrved portion of a clip 8, and a depending portion 17 with an outwardl'y curved edge 18 which fits into' the outwardly curved flange 13.0f the clip 8. The annular strips 14 are clamped to the clips 8 and are secured therewith to the felly 3 by bolts 19 which extend through holes 20 in the strips 14, and through-holes ,formedby, the semicircular recesses 21- in the abutting edges of the clips 8, and through the felly3,.and are secured by nuts 22.

From the foregoing discription it will be seen that the clips'8, and the annular strips 14 may be detachably secured to the tire and 7 felly and will be firmly clamped .in place on the tire and felly and may be readily and quickly removed, for repair. The plurality of clips 8 form an effective protective covering forthe tire and algae by being separately secured to the tire will 'aflord the desired flexibility for thetire. v

The clips 8 are each provided with a suitable serrated or other surface to "prevent the wheel from slipping laterally and also to enable it to rip up the surface of the ground when wet or covered with snow or ice".

In Fig. 5- is shown one of the clips 8, which is provided. with a "short rib 23 extending fromitscurved portion 9. and pref- I loo 5 'erably ofa'Qtriangul-arsnape with a sharp,

edge, the seyeral clips 8 being provided with aprojection of 111115 kind which serves to prevent the'wheel from sli ping and also enables it totake a firm hol on the ground when sli It wil 6- are held in place by the strips 14 and the bolts '19 located at intervals, as shown in full lines 'in Fig. 1, the clips between said.

ery. be noticed in Fig. 1 that the clips bolts "having their adjacent edges forming- Having described the. invention, I claim 1. In a device,..of the character described,

' a nietallic' spring cli .formed with a curved portion -adapted to. e sprung over a tire, opposite internal, flanges adapted to engage the. tire, curved portions b'eneath said flanges-and curved portions depending from said curvedxportionsv-and each forming an outwardly curved flange.

2. In a deviceof the character described, v

a Wheel felly, a ,metallic strip with in:

turned flanges s'ecuredto said telly, a tire i having a groove in each side clenched to said strip, a number of metallic clips sprung over said tire and abutting end to end, each of said-clips having an internal horizonts 1 Copies of th i's'paten-t-inaythe obtained for,

{flange on each side projecting into the groove formed between said strip and the overhang of the tire, a curved portion extending over the flanged edge of the metallic strip, and a depending curved portion bearing a ainst the telly and having a lateral curved flange, an annular clamping metallic strip bearing against and extending longitudinally over the sides of said metallic clips and formed with a curved portion fitting over the sides of the metallic clips, and a curved portion fitting over the curved portions of the extensions of the metallic clips, and a depending portion with an outwardly extendmgfiange seated in the flange at the lower edge of each side of the clips, and a detachable bolt passing through each of the extensions of said clips and through the annular metallic clamping strip at inter vals and through the telly.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

HENRY E. RECHNER..

Witnesses: I

P. J. DOLAN, C. F. HAITER.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. G. 

